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27 December 2013

I had signed up for a 12 Days of Christmas exchange in the i-love-cross-stitch group. I will be updating this post almost every day.

On the First Day of Christmas (Dec25), Nancy gave Brooke's Publishing Books Once Upon a Stitch Meg from Little Women chart and 2 candy canes.

On the Second Day of Christmas(Dec 26), Nancy send me a pair of snowmen socks and glitter star buttons.

On the Third day of Christmas(Dec 27), Nancy gave Brooke's Publishing Books Once Upon a Stitch Jo from Little Women chart and 2 candy canes. Is Beth and Amy coming later in the days of Christmas? I don't know and you will find out when I do, lol. Stay tune for day 4.

On the Fourth Day of Christmas (Dec 28), Nancy gave me some gold needles, a nutcracker ornament and a Twix Santa candy, yummy!

On the Fifth Day of Christmas (Dec 29), Nancy gave me some pretty DMC skeins in red and purple, and a lovely silver candlholder.

On the Sixth Day of Christmas(Dec 30), Nancy gave me a Christmas note pad and gold and white beads.

On the Seventh Day of Christmas (Dec 31), Nancy gave me a Ornament Bake kit and silver trims. I haven't seen one of these kuts since I was a kid.

On the Eighth Day of Christmas (Jan 1), Nancy gave me Brooke's Publishing Books Once Upon a Stitch Amy from Little Women chart and 2 candy canes.

On the Ninth Day of Christmas (Jan 2), Nancy gave me some DMC threads, red beads, and some Lindt Chocolates.

On the Tenth Day of Christmas (Jan 3), Nancy gave me the Brooke's Publishing Books Once Upon a Stitch Beth from Little Women chart and 2 candy canes.

On the Eleventh Day of Christmas (Jan4), Nancy gave me a piece of 28 count evenweave and some blue beads.

It has been about 2 months since I posted an update. It probably be long so bear with me. first up is the last Halloween exchange I didn't post yet. The exchange was hosted by Stitch, Create, and Exchange, formally Stitched with Love blog. Barbara send me a lovely exchange she had made herself. She is a designer in Europe so everything is from her, the pattern she stitched, the one she gave me, the threads, ric rac trimmings and buttons. The thread holder is shape of a raven and very pretty.

My package went to Janet. I stitched her Happy Haunting by DMC. I gave her some socks, ribbon, a little plaque, material, threads, needles, a Mill Hill kit, (vampire) and candy.

Here is a close up of the ornament. It was stitched on 14 count Grasshopper aida from Charles craft, using the DMC threads and a Carrie Creations thread, I forgot the name, Its been awhile since I stitched it. The pattern came from the Just Cross Stitch 2013 Halloween issue.

The first Christmas exchange was Santa's Mittens exchange from my Stitching Sisters yahoo group. Ruthie send me 2 gloves, purple and black, a purple scarf, a purple candy can ornament, and the new set of DMC colors. The ornament is hanging on the tree. I love it and my favorite color. Thank you Ruthie!

In my i-love-cross-stitch yahoo group, my Sock It to Me Santa exchange was from Sharon. I got the socks, beautiful bobbins with a Victorian corset pictured on them, a colorful peacock thread holder and some floss bags. Thank you Sharon.

I made this little ginger woman for Katie S. in the Stitching Sisters group. The ornament was stitched on 16 count opalescent aida. The pattern came from the Christmas Card magazine I got from Karin( in my last post).

This is Country Cottage Needleworks Snowbirds for a friend. The pattern was stitched on 28 count PTP Crystal Dwarf linen. I used beads for the snowflakes.

We got some snow before Christmas but now it is gone. A few days before the 25th, the temperatures hit over 60 degrees. I had my bedroom window open, heat off and wearing shorts and tank tops. Now some Christmas pictures. By Christmas it was in the teens.

Anthony opening some gifts and here he is with the Nerf gun Grandpa got him.

He was very thrilled with the XBox 360 NHL 14 game. Anthony is a hockey player, so anything with hockey you can't go wrong.

See his happy face!

My Christmas tree, and you can see the purple candy cane.

All the cards I got this year.

I made a chocolate trifle for dessert plus there was a carrot cake, rice pudding, and tons of cookies and homemade fudge. I made all of it too, from scratch except for the chocolate cake.

I got these lovely towels from Lynda A from the pensandneedles yahoo group. It is for pen palling but I am not very good at it.

This ornament came from Kim C for the Stitching Sisters yahoo group. It came on Dec 24, right on time. Thank you Kim!

This is a picture of me on Christmas Day. My sister took the picture for me. Next year I will not be looking like this, being obese. On January 15, 2014 I will be having a double surgery, one being the sleeve gastronomy and the removal for my gallbladder. I started the procedure in September, hit a brick wall due to insurance, but I climbed over it, and went to a bigger hospital. I will be going to Yale Hospital to get it done and next Tuesday I will be see the anesthetist for the pre-testing of the surgery. I am going to a support group meeting weekly to help deal with food emotionally. Even though most had the surgery or in the process of getting it done, there a few who just come because they know they are addicted to food. I am nervous, which is normal and wished the surgery was over, but I am excited too, wondering where this path will take me back to normal living and new friendships, providing there are no complications.

I had lost my stitching mojo. I was stitching the Grumpy Cat freebie by Brooke Nolan, I am not sure if you saw it on her website ( Brooke Publishing Books). The person I am stitching for, I am irritated with that person. Maybe I should just finished for me and stitched again later when I am more pleasant with this person. I might have an update before my surgery, if not, it will be afterwards. I will have a giveaway soon. I had reached 300 followers and just gather some items from my stash. Be on a look out for it.

05 December 2013

On the 5th Day of Christmas, Nancy of Victorian Motto Sampler is giving away some trims. Trims are so important to make those finishes extra pretty. Click here or on the blog's title to go to the post.

03 December 2013

Today's giveaway at Victorian Motto Sampler is skeins of new colors Nancy never listed yet. I wonder what colors she came out with? I have some of her skeins and they are beautiful. Click here or on the blog's title to enter on her blog.

02 December 2013

Nancy, from Victorian Motto Sampler, is having her 2nd Day of Christmas giveaway. Today the giveaway is a choice of one of her patterns. I have one in mind if I win, lol. Click here or the blog's title and it will bring you right there.

Parsley, from Seasons of My Mind, is giving away Frosty Moments from Stoney Creek. It is adorable pattern. Click here or the blog's title to get to the post.